The more power reliability experts look at EPA’s proposed carbon regulations the more they don’t like what they see.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the Lone Star State’s power grid watchdog, warns that by driving out coal-fired power plants EPA's carbon regulations “could result in transmission reliability issues,” such as an “increased risk of rotating outages as a last resort.”
ERCOT estimates that proposed carbon regulations and other proposed EPA regulations, could mean the retirement of “between 3,300 MW and 8,700 MW of coal generation capacity.” That’s “up to half of the existing coal capacity” in the region.
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